Comments on: An Old Community is New

By: Loralee

Loralee — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:48:40 +0000

I seriously think it’s the late 30’s thing. I am caring less and less what the freak others think of me. (And I LOVED the ’18 and confident thing” I truly thought EVERYONE FIGURED IT OUT BUT ME!)

Muwah gorgeous! xo

By: Just Margaret

Just Margaret — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:33:31 +0000

You know--I think it may in fact be the 40 thing. I hit 40 myself this year, and am finding that I yearn less for the external community. At the risk of sounding cynical, people can be really annoying. I know I haven't found any new community myself this year. I did jump into twitter in 2010, but still, almost 1000 tweets in, I feel...ignorant, like I still don't "get it". As for future community--I'm hoping to get more traction in my attempt to create, even loosely, a community of parents in my school district who want to support the G&T program. Either that, or I'm ready to bail altogether on this community and move to an entirely new one (and back to civilization) where they have better public schools.

By: Christie

Christie — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:05:44 +0000

I love posts like this one that sort themselves out as they go. This comment will probably proceed in a similar fashion.

I feel the same way about Twitter, “trying to sort through the noise” and for me, not entirely sure which conversation to join. It’s a little like walking up to strangers at a sales conference and trying to find a way into the discussion. I’ll be 40 next year and I’m still working on the whole well-adjusted, supremely self-confident thing, but perhaps finding the community in you might be the best way to find your community out there.